| absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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| (adjective) not limited by law | - |
| (adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
| (adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
| (noun) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative | - |
| acute | (adjective) having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course | - |
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| (adjective) of an angle; less than 90 degrees | - |
| (adjective) of critical importance and consequence | - |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
| (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, needlelike, sharp |
| (adjective) extremely sharp or severe | Synonyms: intense |
| (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute accent, ague |
| arcminute | (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree | Synonyms: minute, minute of arc |
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| astute | (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: sharp, shrewd |
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| attribute | (noun) an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity | - |
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| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: dimension, property |
| (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, impute |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: assign |
| brute | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish |
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| (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, savage, wildcat, wolf |
| chute | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: slide, slideway, sloping trough |
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| (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: parachute |
| (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: jump, parachute |
| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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| comminute | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, crunch, grind, mash |
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| commute | (noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work | - |
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| (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: permute, transpose |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: convert, exchange |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, convert, exchange |
| (verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: transpose |
| (verb) travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home | - |
| compute | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| confute | (verb) prove to be false | Synonyms: disprove |
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| constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
| contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
| (verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
| (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolve |
| cute | (adjective) obviously contrived to charm | Synonyms: precious |
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| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cunning |
| depute | (verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: delegate |
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| (verb) appoint as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, designate |
| destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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| (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
| dilute | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: diluted |
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| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
| dispute | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: contravention |
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| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference, difference of opinion |
| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, gainsay |
| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap |
| disrepute | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: discredit |
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| dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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| execute | (verb) sign in the presence of witnesses | - |
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| (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: accomplish, action, carry out, carry through, fulfil, fulfill |
| (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, perform |
| (verb) kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment | Synonyms: put to death |
| (verb) murder in a planned fashion | - |
| (verb) carry out the legalities of | - |
| (verb) carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine | Synonyms: run |
| flute | (noun) a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown | Synonyms: transverse flute |
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| (noun) a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) | Synonyms: fluting |
| (noun) a tall narrow wineglass | Synonyms: champagne flute, flute glass |
| (verb) form flutes in | - |
| glute | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: gluteal muscle, gluteus, gluteus muscle |
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| hirsute | (adjective) having or covered with hair | Synonyms: haired, hairy |
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| impute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, attribute |
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| (verb) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source | - |
| institute | (noun) an association organized to promote art or science or education | - |
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| (verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: bring |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant |
| involute | (adjective) (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured | - |
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| (adjective) especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward | Synonyms: rolled |
| irresolute | (adjective) uncertain how to act or proceed | - |
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| jute | (noun) a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks | - |
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| lute | (noun) chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard | - |
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| (noun) a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid | Synonyms: luting |
| malamute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malemute |
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| malemute | (noun) breed of sled dog developed in Alaska | Synonyms: Alaskan malamute, malamute |
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| minute | (adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination | Synonyms: narrow |
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| (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: infinitesimal |
| (noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: hour |
| (noun) a short note | - |
| (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree | Synonyms: arcminute, minute of arc |
| (noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | Synonyms: min |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, mo, moment, second |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, moment, second |
| mute | (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: silent, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, silent |
| (noun) a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument | - |
| (noun) a deaf person who is unable to speak | Synonyms: deaf-and-dumb person, deaf-mute |
| (verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dampen, dull, muffle, tone down |
| parachute | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: chute |
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| (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, jump |
| permute | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: commute, transpose |
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| persecute | (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: oppress |
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| pollute | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, foul |
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| prosecute | (verb) bring a criminal action against (in a trial) | - |
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| (verb) conduct a prosecution in a court of law | - |
| (verb) carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | Synonyms: engage, pursue |
| prostitute | (noun) a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl |
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| (verb) sell one's body; exchange sex for money | - |
| reattribute | (verb) attribute to another source | - |
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| reconstitute | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: restructure |
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| redistribute | (verb) distribute anew | - |
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| refute | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, rebut |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: rebut |
| repute | (noun) the state of being held in high esteem and honor | Synonyms: reputation |
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| (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, esteem, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, take to be, think of |
| resolute | (adjective) firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by quickness and firmness | Synonyms: unhesitating |
| restitute | (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: renovate |
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| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restore |
| route | (noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: road |
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| (noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: itinerary, path |
| (verb) send via a specific route | - |
| (verb) divert in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) send documents or materials to appropriate destinations | - |
| salute | (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salutation |
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| (noun) a formal military gesture of respect | Synonyms: military greeting |
| (noun) an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat | - |
| (verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
| (verb) express commendation of | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
| (verb) become noticeable | - |
| saute | (adjective) fried quickly in a little fat | Synonyms: sauteed |
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| (noun) a dish of sauteed food | - |
| (verb) fry briefly over high heat | - |
| scute | (noun) large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake | - |
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| solute | (noun) the dissolved matter in a solution; the component of a solution that changes its state | - |
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| statute | (adjective) enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: codified |
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| (noun) an act passed by a legislative body | Synonyms: legislative act |
| subacute | (adjective) less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it | - |
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| substitute | (adjective) artificial and inferior | Synonyms: ersatz |
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| (adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, alternative |
| (adjective) capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team | Synonyms: utility |
| (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: reserve, second-stringer |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, replace |
| (verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, sub |
| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize, step in |
| transmute | (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transform |
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| (verb) alter the nature of (elements) | - |
| (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transubstantiate |
| tribute | (noun) payment by one nation for protection by another | - |
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| (noun) payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence | Synonyms: protection |
| (noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: testimonial |
| veloute | (noun) white sauce made with stock instead of milk | - |
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| volute | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, voluted, whorled |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, whorl |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: spiral |